Who Can Flow?
Just about anybody can use the Flowmotion Waterloop because it is low impact and easy to learn. Even those who haven't exercised regularly can instantly benefit from flowmotion total body movement. Families, pregnant women, teens, children, and seniors, and those who face rehabilitation or special learning challenges can all enjoy physical and mental development from the regular practice of Flowmotion.
Experience with the Flowmotion Waterloop will vary depending on the level of skill, intensity, intention and style of the workout. Customize your sessions according to desired outcomes.
Personal Training
The dynamics of fluid movement provides immediate and continuous feedback. Listen to and feel the movement of the water. If the water is jerky or choppy, it's telling you that your movement is stiff and restricted. The water should travel smoothly through the tube. It's like having a partner or coach to let you know where you need to repattern your movement to make it more open, graceful, efficient, and powerful.
Couples or Partners
Flowing is a great way for couples to exercise together. If you move at different paces and have a different level of conditioning, it is easy to meet your individual needs for a complete workout while maintaining the level of intensity each person needs to reach. Have fun and be creative in choreographing your own Flowmotion dance. With the Flowmotion Waterloop partners can mirror each other's moves, synchronizing the breathing and body rhythms.
Families
The Flowmotion Waterloop is a wonderful and fun family activity. Together you grow in strength, flexibility, coordination and total body awareness. Parents are demonstrating for their children the importance of lifelong fitness practices, self-management skills, and taking charge of their own health and well-being. There are not many activities that adults and children can do together and meet the level of intensity they need to achieve a cardio workout. The Waterloop allows you to each work with your appropriate weight and level of intensity. It is also a great way for grandparents to connect with their grandchildren. It is an activity that families can do together that will teach children skills that will give then a physical and mental advantage in any activity they choose. Children
Children find Flowmotion unique and exciting enjoying the movement with the Waterloop because of the tangible feel and sound of the water. The feedback from Waterloop develops sensori-motor integration and provides a state of mind conducive to optimal learning experience.
Caution: The Waterloop is not as long as a jump rope and should not be used as one.
Pregnant Women and New Moms
This gentle, stress relieving exercise program for expectant mothers helps introduce the baby to soothing, rhythmic motion while keeping Mom in shape. There is research on gentle side to side and front to back movement that stimulates the developing fetus to develop neuro- muscular connections as Mom is practicing Flowmotion. New mothers can also use this extremely beneficial non-impact program to help get back into shape and reduce tension. See the article on full term Flow.
Seniors
Don't fall victim to the notion that it is inevitable with age the human body becomes more rigid, less functional, and suffers more pain and discomfort. Exercise for seniors is vital for enhanced health, fitness, and well-being. The Flowmotion Waterloop helps maintain strength, flexibility, range of motion, balance, endurance, and energy. It's never too late to start. The mental physical movement patterns also help to develop the plasticity of the brain keeping the mind sharp and aware.
The "Fitness" Elite
Professional athletes, dancers, aerobics instructors, martial arts masters, and weightlifters are among the well-conditioned who utilize the Flowmotion Waterloop for overall kinesthetic awareness, enhanced range of extended balanced movement, flexibility, endurance and strength. The Pros practice sports specific movement patterns with the Waterloop and develop ambidexterity and refined coordination skills as they enjoy the highly refined feedback of this movement system.
